Subj : Apple //e w0rld
To   : paulie420
From : Spectre
Date : Mon Jun 19 2023 09:44:00

 pa> I joined the Apple community today. I found an Apple IIe collection for
 pa> the right price, with so many extras.... (6 disk drives, a TransWarp
 pa> accelerator card, 1MB RAM expansion, etc etc etc) and even the original
 pa> receipts and manuals - just a vast collection.

Some of that is "interesting" and some is pretty normal :)  With 6 floppies
you'll be able to mount up almost all the floppies for Ultima V. Haven't been
there in uhmm maybe 30 years.  The 1mb card is mildly interesting, problem
with those things is not much will actually utilise it.  Its not like your
65c02 can address it. AppleWorks will load stuff onto it, otherwise it mostly
looks like a ramdrive. Over here we don't tend to see to many IIe
accelsiorators, so thats always spiffy.

The media alternatives to look for, are the FloppyEmu, its your SD card
image based drive emulator, although it only mounts one image at a time.
Mebbe a CFFA3000, but I don't know that these are still available and not
having one, can't comment on it to much, its meant to be pretty much swiss
army knife though.  The last would be an MDT, Micro Drive Turbo.  Its a HD
emulation using CF cards.

I'll vouch for the floppulator and the MDT having both.  On a IIe probably
worth having a look at Apple II Desktop.  Its a gui on top of ProDOS for a
//c or IIe.  Otherwise you have CLI ProDOS, or DOS3.3, the rest of the
possibilities are thinner on the ground, CP/M if you have a Z80 card, USCD
pascal there's not much else off hand.

Spec


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